Advantage Mobile
At a Dauphin Street dive bar recently, I stood tableside and watched my buddy close out yet another pool victory. Eight ball,...
What Makes You Beautiful?
Some answer that it’s their confidence; others say compassion. A few cite dazzling smiles or silvering hair, while others mention spunky personality or a willingness...
Catching Alligators
I learned about catching alligators from my neighbor, Butch Dobson. His camp looks like a mobile home jacked up onto pilings, ...
A True Man of Letters
How do you find the universal in the particular?” asks Mobile Bay-area wordsmith Roy Hoffman while we enjoy a relaxing lunch on the...
Palms Spring
I’ve visited lots of tree farms: Christmas trees in Virginia, pines around Alabama, maples near Auburn. The last thing I expected...
Hot List: Best in Show
Music Malagafest 2013 March 23 - 24 • Malaga Inn, 359 Church St. What better way to begin the spring...
Aqua Culture
Melissa and Michael Spellmeyer always hoped someday they would wind up with a house on the water. The couple, along with their two sons,...
Snippets from Southern Pages
From the Foreword by Walter Edgar And it is Sledge’s love of books, his passion for the written word, that...
A Nest by the Sea
For years, just as the chilly frost of Old Man Winter made its first appearance on their Baltimore doorstep, Sandy Clarke and...
Feathered Finds
Humans like to solve puzzles. When we get a glimpse of something unusual, we ask why. Last year, local birders...